Jingsheng Jason Cong, Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, was recognized by the academy “for pioneering contributions to application-specific programmable logic via innovations in field programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis.” Cong has led research in electronic design automation, energy-efficient computing, customized computing for big-data applications, and highly scalable algorithms. In particular, FPGAs designed by his […]
Falcon co-founder Dr. Jason Cong received ASP-DAC 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award
This month, Falcon co-founder Dr. Jason Cong and his coauthors received ASP-DAC’s 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 2017 Asia and South-Pacific Design Automation Conference held in Tokyo, Japan. Their award-winning paper, “Thermal-Aware 3D IC Placement Via Transformation,” was published in ASP-DAC in 2007. This is Jason’s second 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper […]
Falcon Computing hires Bradley Howe as CEO
Howe brings 14 years of Executive Leadership in the Programmable Logic Industry. Falcon Computing Solutions, a pioneer in customized computing for big-data applications, today announced the hiring of Bradley Howe as CEO. Howe joins Falcon from Intel, where he headed engineering for the Programmable Solutions Group (formerly Altera). Prior to Intel, Howe spent 14 years […]
Falcon Engineer Di Wu Presented during SoCC 2016
On Oct. 7, Di Wu from Falcon Computing Solutions, Inc. presented the paper titled “Programming and Runtime Support to Blaze FPGA Accelerator Deployment at Datacenter Scale” in the 2016 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2016), one of the top conferences in cloud computing. In the talk, Di discussed deploying FPGA at datacenter-scale using the […]
Falcon co-founder Dr. Jason Cong leads session on Heterogeneous Computing at ISLPED’2016; VP of Engineering Dr. Peichen Pan presents
Dr. Jason Cong, co-founder of Falcon Computing Solutions, UCLA Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing chaired the session on Heterogeneous Computing in Data Centers for Energy Efficiency at the recent ISLPED Conference in San Francisco, August 8th-10th, 2016 Dr. Peichen Pan from Falcon Computing Solutions presented an integrated solution that includes […]
FCS joins Xilinx Alliance Program
As a member of Xilinx’ Alliance Program, Falcon’s Merlin Compiler, Kestrel runtime and acceleration libraries are now certified to work with Xilinx FPGAs and tools.
Falcon co-founder Dr. Jason Cong Receives IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award
Falcon co-founder and UCLA Chancellor’s Professor Jason Cong (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science), has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award. The award is given for outstanding contributions in computer and information science and engineering. The society cited Cong […]
Falcon engineers Di Wu and Muhuan Huang Give Talk at Spark Summit 2016
Falcon co-founder Dr. Jason Cong gives talk at DAC 2016
Speaking at the DAC 2016 Tuesday session on heterogeneous architectures, Professor Jason Cong of UCLA and cofounder of Falcon Computing Solutions, said: “Data center energy consumption is a very big deal. We are looking at having to build 50 additional large power plants by 2020 to support them.” One of the problems in data-center computer […]
Co-founder Dr. Jason Cong discussed FPGA acceleration opportunities in datacenters with NextPlatform.com
A new article named “Broader Paths Etched into FPGA Datacenter Roadmap” has been published on NextPlatform.com featuring an in-depth interview with Dr. Jason Cong, Falcon co-founder and Chief scientific advisor. “In his 25-year career working with FPGAs, UCLA’s Dr. Jason Cong has watched the devices move from purpose-driven implementations, to devices for prototyping and now, in […]
